The US Fox News channel cut off one of its own reporters just as she seemed about to give away what people are saying is foreknowledge among Donald Trump’s inner circle about the ‘assassination attempt’ at this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner.
White House Correspondents Dinner ‘shooter’
Trump had said, for the first time ever, that he would attend. An alleged shooter then tried to rush past guards before being detained.
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But many people on social media are wondering if Trump knew about it beforehand. This is because Fox correspondent Aishah Hasnie was seated with Nicholas Riccio, the husband of Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Riccio, she said, told her “You do a good job… you need to be safe tonight” then looked around the room suggestively. But Fox stopped Hasnie even finishing the sentence:
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That was far from the only weird aspect of the event. Several journalists talked about the lack of security at the event. Bags were not even being checked, and at least two correspondents said they left almost as soon as they arrived because it “felt wrong”:
Trump looked entirely unconcerned, even smirking, as the White House Correspondents Dinner ‘attack’ happened:
Chaotic footage of President Trump being evacuated pic.twitter.com/KzageVO0h0
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2026
The lack of urgency among bodyguards to remove Trump was clear, with vice-president JD Vance rushed out relatively quickly – before anyone went to remove Trump:
Pro-Israel Trump figures seemed to know the identity of the alleged shooter before the name had been announced:
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A photo of Allen, face down and handcuffed, was given to Trump within moments so he could post it on his ‘Truth Social’ platform, as political commentator Tom Santos observed:
Active crime scene. Alleged shooter in the same building as the President and Vice President of the United States.
And someone gets to snap pictures like this of the shooter and then send them to Trump so he could use them on his socials moments later.
Totally legit. pic.twitter.com/gBNU2AhkRv
— Tom Santos (@tommysantos14) April 26, 2026
Trump later took the opportunity to say the attempted shooting justified his ridiculous new White House ballroom – and was amplified by dozens of MAGA accounts in a clearly coordinated campaign.
Build the White House Ballroom. pic.twitter.com/3CBVZtf4cK
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 26, 2026
Santos found it all a bit too much to swallow:
You want me to believe that:
– This is something like the 3rd or 4th Secret Service failure.
– Tump boycotts the correspondence dinner every year.
– He’s pitching an unnecessary ballroom no one asked for.
– And there happens to be a shooter incident at the event when a large…— Tom Santos (@tommysantos14) April 26, 2026
He’s surely not the only one.
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Ignoring whether it’s a conspiracy or not. The right can thank themselves for sowing these. I mean, they somehow got people to believe that Biden didn’t win the election with no evidence. Let’s see how this one goes!
Ah, rock solid evidence like “trump seemed unconcerned”.
Sure. If you ignore all of the evidence they listed and just say “Trump seemed unconcerned” was the only thing they said, I guess you’d have a point
Yeah it’s invalid to provide an example of how flimsy a case is. It is now my job to prove a negative /s
No. Not even remotely what I said. Are you ok?
What you would do is know the facts before spouting off a dismissal like you do. Confident ignorance is the epitome of a magat.
What you have ignored is that: -Trump has never attended these and didn’t even have proper security after multiple attempts on his life. We know this because of reporters that left after feeling unsafe at the event (which they tweeted prior to the incident) -Press secretary said the specific words, which would align with all of the illegal betting on poly market which the administration has flat out been caught using and profiting from. -Press secretary’s husband was warning a fox news reporter that it would be dangerous at the event and Fox News cut her off mod sentence live on TV. -This admin has already been suspected of staging attempts like the photo op that killed a firefighter. Notice there are no investigations by the press or DOJ regarding these?
But sure, everyone thinks it’s sus because “Trump had a bad feeling”
Stfu
Literally not one syllable of that nears proving anything. Thus I don’t need to argue against it. We don’t prove that something didn’t happen, that’s not how logic works. We prove something did happen. It seems I’ve vastly overestimated the level of education present on this platform because none of this conjecture is any better than qanon’s. You are not “being skeptical” by buying into unproven, unimportant, perhaps even untrue “evidence”. You’re making the left look like a bunch of unhinged idiots. And it’s sad and hurts the very concept of truth itself. Even just thinking this administration could be even close to competent enough to successfully faking this empowers them. Your willingness to believe unproven things hurts everyone, not that you care.
Dishonest fascist is dishonest.
Did someone clue the chuds in to the fediverse or something? Lots of fashposting and arguing in bad faith recently
“Not here, not something like this”
Translation - I’m not brown and poor enough for this
Wasn’t Lie-Witt talking about “shots will be fired” sometime before the dinner?
“There are some”
When she clarified on Twitter it changed to “the world is crazy”
